The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-21
POULTRY FIELDING.
Green Food Necessary to the wsll-Beinr
All Kinds of Fowls.

Green Food Necessary to the well-Belnr Il 4
All Kinds Of Fowls. u
Poultry of all kinds relish green food,
and do not long continue in health I
without it. Leaves Of cabbage, turnin
and the general waste of the garden.
should be thrown to them, along with /
scraps from the house and insects. The
run of a paddock is excellent, and in i
straw-yard they find plenty to cat and
employ themselves in scratching. which
promotes their health and happiness
The great difficulty with most people,
who keep fowls is to spare them sufi. /
cient room for a good run; and where i
well-kept garden is desired the birds
are cooped up in small Enclosure
where they can not prosper, and al
last are voted expensive and trouble
some, and got rid of as a failure. Butt
better way is to rail off good-sizedI
piece of ground and let the fowls haEsI
free range over it, to pick and scratch
as they please. But this patch need
not be lost, as to the growing Of gar
den crops, for there are many which
fowls will not touch, and to these II
should be, in measure, appropriated.
To supply them with green food, plant
in it row of kale, or any kind Of cab
bage; and if supplied with sufficient
green food that they like, the 70.
mainder may be appropriated TO
Jerusalem artichokes, potatoes, broad
beans, parsnips, rhubarb, carrots
parsley and any other pot herbs
Kidney beans they will destroy
as soon as the pods are ripe, but not
before; so they may also be grown nths
poultry run, as may also vegetable mar.
rows, pumpkins, onions, lettuce and
.urnips; but the last Eve are sptto %
scratched up when young, and may neea
the protection of net, or coop, OF .
few hurdles round the beds in their ear
lier stages; but when strong the protecs
ton may be removed. OF course, tho
poultry yard will not be the the tlaless
part of the garden, but compromise. y
better than doing an injustice TO ns
birds, and it may be effected without =
total sacrifice to them Of the ground
they require to have sufficient liberty "
prosper. Plenty of clean water grass'
and broken oyster shells, orold mortar,
should be kept in all poultry yaros =
indispensable. Without lime IN soms
shape fowls will not lay so many egg
as if well supplied with it.
Ducks are good birds for small n0ia.
ers. A little ditch to paddle in, or even
tub sunk in their run, will serve tnsm
almost as well as a pond; but, ike o.ns 7:
poultry, plenty of room in paddocA : !
an advantage. Young ducks alloMss
to run through kitchen garden a0 I
vast deal of good, by destroying yer.
min, and, at the same time, thrive upsa
the food they get. They are ap. y, : !,
tread down young crop, ana lla.
must be guarded against by inclos ~.
the bed with some nets or hurdles ll'
Aylesbury ducks are the most prlls. $.
and are most prolific layers. lney e !.
bad mothers. however, and it is 0es' y
put the eggs under a cochin men al =
confine the brood for the first week, = J.
keep them from the water. Theif nls ~
food shonld be boiled eggs ana DO,'es
nettles; then change to boiled os'i =,
and after that they may feed WIN Wv ~
others; but they want little II they "a =
forage for themselves. A gooa ~ 4.
twice day of boiled grain, VITA ~ -
run of the place, soon fattens themi - y
they should be shut close the iass ~.
night and no insect food allowed H. "a
or their flesh will be rank. - or'a~ :.
Chamber Of Agriculture Jo o..'